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0 pointsot3y ago0 comments

This thread is surreal. You started with "Tipping is a system in which customers explicitly, optionally, and variably share some of the cost of labor.", and now we got to no, actually, there is no optionality or variability, why would you want there to be any?

So we're back to tipping being just a way to artificially display lower prices on the menu and enjoy the psychological deception?

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tptacek3y ago

You have the option of not tipping mechanically; you might, for instance, find it acceptable to subject working class people to your whims about the quality of your service. I do not. Regardless, generally speaking, you are socially expected to tip at least 15% any time you dine out at a full service restaurant in America.

watwut3y ago

> Regardless, generally speaking, you are socially expected to tip at least 15% any time you dine out at a full service restaurant in America.

Then it amounts to psychological trick to make prices artificial seem lower. With added bonus of being able to bad faith argue "it was your choice".

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tptacek3y ago

watwut3y ago

> Regardless, generally speaking, you are socially expected to tip at least 15% any time you dine out at a full service restaurant in America.

Then it amounts to psychological trick to make prices artificial seem lower. With added bonus of being able to bad faith argue "it was your choice".

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